“My vast and noble capital. My Daitu, my splendidly adorned; and thou, my cool and delicious summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung.
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Alas, for my illustrious name as the Sovereign of the World! Alas, for my Daitu, seat of sanctity, glorious work of the immortal Kublai! All, all is rent from me!” (Colonel Yule, in Marco Polo)
“As for what thou hearest others say, who persuade the many that the soul, when once freed from the body, neither suffers… evil nor is conscious, I know that thou art better grounded in the doctrines received by us from our ancestors, and in the sacred orgies of Dionysus, than to believe them; for the mystic symbols are well known to us who belong to the ‘Brotherhood.’” (Plutarch)
“The problem of life is man. MAGIC, or rather Wisdom, is the evolved knowledge of the potencies of man’s interior being, which forces are Divine emanations, as intuition is the perception of their origin, and initiation our induction into that knowledge. …We begin with instinct; the end is OMNISCIENCE.” (A. Wilder)
“Power belongs to him WHO KNOWS.” (Brahmanical Book of Evocation)
It would argue small discernment on our part were we to suppose that we had been followed thus far through this work by any but metaphysicians, or mystics of some sort. Were it otherwise, we should certainly advise such to spare themselves the trouble of reading this chapter; for, although nothing is said that is not strictly true, they would not fail to regard the least wonderful of the narratives as absolutely false, however substantiated.
To comprehend the principles of natural law involved in the several phenomena hereinafter described, the reader must keep in mind the fundamental propositions of the Oriental philosophy which we have successfully elucidated.”
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 